Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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Various Fields of Learning Mr. Charles Stringfellow, top, shows Mr. John Long, ' incent Haught, and Ralph Atkins the newest tractor on the market. Miss Nancy Giles, practice teacher from Madison College, bottom, helps Edna Carroll, homemaking student, baste her dress. Culpeper High School offers three courses: general, college preparatory, and commercial. Basic graduation requirements common to all three courses are four units of English, one of United States history, and one of senior civics. For students not planning to attend college the general course is the most valuable of the courses offered. Before completing the general course, a student must have two units of math- ematics, and one of science, in addition to the basic subjects required of all. For the remain- der of the sixteen necessary units he may choose from a wide variety of electives includ- ing home economics, agriculture, shop, art, music, Latin, Spanish, chemistry, physics, journalism, biology, algebra, geometry, trigo- nometry, world history, DE, DO, and com- mercial subjects — business arithmetic, short- hand, bookkeeping, and typing — provided there is sufficient room in these classes. Boys and girls electing DE and DO, which may be taken during the junior and senior years only, come to school each morning and take a class in distributive education or diver- sified occupations in addition to their required subjects and then work in town in the afternoon.

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Curriculum Offers Mr. Walter Thomas, band director, top, instructs Hugh Hawkins, Otis Feaganes, and Lucille Jones in the playing cf their band instruments. C. Chilton and G. Stover, bottom left, jump to hit volleyball across net to W. Leathers. D. Dillard, bottom right, serves as helper as D. Young does a somersault. The basic purpose of the high school is to train youth to become good citizens. The facul- ty and administration of Culpeper High School strive to achieve this purpose through an or- ganized program of classroom instruction and co-curric ular and extra-curricular activities. Through these media boys and girls at Cul- peper ffigh School acquire basic knowledge, skills, desirable traits, and appreciation that will help them in everyday living or further learning. Opportunity is present for developing abilities to read, to listen, to express one’s self in writing or orally, to use mathematics ac- curately, to make wise use of time, and to rec- ognize and solve problems. School experiences whether in traditional or informal class exer- cises, or in club programs and activity are de- signed to effectively meet the students’ needs. In order to graduate from Culpeper High School a student must have completed five years of secondary school work and must have acquired sixteen high school Carnegie units. Physical education and the eighth grade are required but do not give any Carnegie units. 16 K‘

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For Future Leaders Jeanette Bledsoe and Benjamin Brown, top, do practice work on the new office equipment, the dictaphone. Mrs. Howard McCall, bottom, instructs students Shirley Whit- lock, Duane Dibble, Linda Guinn, and Betty Hitt on the use of the different ledgers in bookkeeping. The commercial cou rse was planned for stu- dents desiring to do secretarial or commercial work. Boys and girls who enroll in this course must have the ability to think clearly, and to do careful, accurate, and speedy work. Some Cul- peper High School graduates begin their full- time office work immediately after completing their high school commercial course; others prefer to further their skill by additional train- ing in a secretarial school or college. A student taking the commercial course must meet the basic graduation requirements common to all courses, he must have two units of mathematics including business arithmetic, and one of science, and he must complete the following commercial subjects: general busi- ness, office practice. Shorthand I and II, Typ- ing I and II, bookkeeping, and office practice. Many who take the commercial course do part-time work in various businesses during their last year of high school. This work pro- gram, designed to help students “learn by doing” is a part of the office practice class and is supervised by the office practice instructor. • ■{ 18 )■